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Not much, but you can transfer stuff that's not written by you, provided its attributed. Code powered transfers have problems, as mentioned elsewhere, the thing is infested with malware so that it's probably best to print any threads you like to PDF and rehost them.

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Everything is edible. Just that there are things only edible once per lifetime.It's a god-eat-god world.

Procrastination is the thief of time; Year after year it steals, till all are fled,And to the mercies of a moment leaves; The vast concerns of an eternal scene.

Hmm... would the Internet Archive be interested in taking the database?

That could be a very effective method. Maybe just ask Archive.org if they could do a final sweep of everything one the forum, and possibly just hand them the database to make it easier?At the very least, It would remove any time constraints on transcribing it back here, via code or not.

I would be really, really neat if we could export entire threads, instead of having to copy/paste individual posts.

You can. just Click at Print option at the start of the thread with your right mouse button and choose "Save as", save the .html file on your hard drive and you will have the entire thread as an easy to read file.

Nice! Thanks!

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I don't pee messages into the snow often , but when I do , it's in Cyrillic with Fake Viagra. Stay frosty my friends.

Well I have always come to BG's Min/Max board more for getting ideas. Though every once in a while I do post. It had been a while since I visited (busy winter) and didn't notice the move until today. So while the old boards are nice for people like me, I know it's a pain to keep them around for ever.

There also comes the issue of lost posts. Nothing is worse then someone who has bookmarked a post for a character concept and then in a future game goes to look for it to build a character off of it, and can no longer find the posting. Now I assume all posts have been brought over to the new boards, but it just makes it harder to find.

What exactly are you downloading (all the boards vs. some of the boards? images or not? etc.), how are you downloading it, and what's your internet speed? It shouldn't take multiple days and tens of gigs to download the whole thing. I whipped up a quick script that was able to download GM Gameology in 10 minutes or so, and I have at least 20 gigs free if it's needed.